quickly
It refers to a pointless action. Another similar British idiom is " carrying coals to Newcastle". It means: You are doing something that will have no positive affect. you are wasting your time! Obviousely you cannot really carry water in a sieve, so when someone says that, they are basically saying that you are not acheiving anything.
You can sift flour using a sieve.
the sieve plate is a filter for the water that enters the "Water Vascular System" in Echinoderms.
The sieve tube elements are specialized elongated cells in the phloem that connect end to end forming a tube. The main function of this tube is to transport nutrition in the form of carbohydrates. Sieve cells have no nucleus, ribosomes and cytoplasm, meanin they cannot carry out primary metabolic activities. The companion cells, which are closely associated with the sieve tube elements, carry out the their metabolic functions.
a sieve
A sieve is used when you are cooking something and you need to get rid of the lumps, such as when you are making a cake, you often sieve the flour before adding it to the mixture so that it is not lumpy. A sieve can also be used when you are cooking something like vegetables and want to get rid of the water you have boiled them in. You would hold the sieve over the sink and then pour the vegetables and water into the sieve and you would be left with just the vegetables because the water would go through the little holes in the sieve and down the sink.
A fine sieve.
Pour the mixture through a kitchen sieve. The gravel will remain in the sieve the water can be collected in a bucket or another container.
It is virtually impossible to separate salt and water with a sieve unless the two materials have not been touched. This is because when salt is combined with water, it dissolves, and then it is mixed in with the water. To separate these two materials, you have to let the water evaporate, so then the salt is left.
by flowing along with water through perforations in the sieve plate
A sieve is something that separates insoluble substances from a solution. In the kitchen, a sieve is meshed wire, with tiny holes in it to allow the water to pass through, but doesn't allow insoluble substances.To sieve (verb) means to sift or separate things.